Popular retro deckbuilding games
Old-school pixels meet run-based card play in these popular retro deckbuilding picks. You guide a mech across tactics grids in StarVaders, build cost-ordered combos in Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors, or feed folklore creatures with linked recipes in Hungry Horrors. Expect turn-based fights, short runs and lots of rebuilding around new synergies.
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Hungry Horrors
A story-driven deckbuilder where you play a very reluctant princess feeding the folklore monsters of the British Isles. You cook real dishes like Toad in the Hole, chain salty, sweet and savoury flavours to fill their hunger, and grow your deck one recipe at a time.
98% of 250 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$14.99THE SPIRIT LIFT
A retro horror deckbuilder roguelike set in a haunted hotel in the 1990s. Choose your teens, explore and fight! If you die rewind the night!
94% of 118 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$19.99Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
A turbo-charged turn-based deckbuilder set in the Vampire Survivors world. You stack cards in rising mana order for bigger combos, level up for new cards, and push through monster-packed dungeons until the numbers get silly.
96% of 19,095 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 558$9.99StarVaders
Pilot a mech against an alien invasion in a roguelike that fuses deckbuilding with grid tactics. You move, shoot and combo cards to hold the line, rewind bad turns with Chrono Tokens, and draft a new build every run across mechs, pilots and challenge modes.
97% of 3,827 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 65$24.99Tower Tactics II
Tower Tactics II mixes deckbuilding with tower defense: you draft tower and spell cards, stack trinkets and status effects, then hold the line against the Sal'koth across story quests, Ascension levels and extra modes. Good for deckbuilder fans who want their synergies to shoot back.
96% of 101 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$14.99Death Howl
Death Howl is an open-world deckbuilder where you play Ro, a hunter crossing the Spirit Realm to bring her son back. You craft decks from 160+ cards around poison, sacrifice, backstabbing and more, then fight turn-based battles on a grid. Grim, mournful, and built for deckbuilder fans who like rebuilding often.
92% of 1,362 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 15$11.99Dungeon Clawler
Dungeon Clawler is a roguelike deckbuilder where your deck is a claw machine. You steer the claw over a pit of weapons and items, grab what you can, then watch those finds hit in turn-based fights. Runs stack upgrades, perks, and strange synergies on the way to the dungeon lord, and losing your paw story aside, it is silly, bright, and easy to run again.
88% of 3,771 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 97$14.99Kinny and the Cosmic Cauldron
You are the witch chef of Stewpendous Spoons, dropping ingredients into the Cosmic Cauldron and building a deck that makes them collide, merge and score. Hit the target before bizarre alien patrons lose patience, or you become the next ingredient.
84% of 613 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 25$12.99Magecraft: Spellbuilding
Craft spell cards, collect new effects, and build the perfect deck as you fight through rounds of turn-based combat. Survive randomly-generated dungeon layouts by countering enemy attacks with your own spells, and make the most of the powers and scrolls you pick up along the way.
98% of 154 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4FreeON&OFF
ON&OFF is a turn-based strategy game where you manipulate pieces on a grid to trigger explosive chain reactions. Toggle pieces ON to attack, defend, and heal. Read the enemy's telegraphed intents, unleash powerful skills, and master the board to survive!
98% of 140 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4FreeInsider Trading
Insider Trading is a roguelike deckbuilder where you bend the market to your will. Synergize perks, manipulate stock prices, and trade wisely or risk pricing yourself out.
79% of 615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.44Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
A blackjack roguelike where every hand is a fight in a seedy tavern. You hit and stand toward 21 to hurt blackjack-addicted townspeople, then draft tarot cards, business cards and other rule-breaking nonsense to beat the house on the next run.
81% of 3,064 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 196$4.79
